Adult education programs

The main objective of this study was on adult education programs for reformation of prison inmates in Oko prison Benin city Edo state:Challenges and Strategies for improvement. To guide this study, four research questions were formulated. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised all the prison staf and inmates in Edo State. The sample consisted of 200 persons i.e. 100 inmates and 100 prison staf selected through simple random sampling. Questionnaire was the instrument for data collection which was dully validated by experts in Adult Education and Measurement and Evaluation. Among the major findings of the study were that overcrowding, poor funding, poor sanitation, poor facilities militate against reformation of prison inmates while provision of adequate facilities, recruitment of professional educators and administrators, adequate counseling services, adequate funding of prisons among others were the strategies for improvement in reformation of prison inmates in Edo State